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  • Cloisonné, an ancient metalworking technique, is a multi-step enamel process used to produce jewelry, vases, and other decorative items. Objects ...
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  • Niobium or columbium (chemical symbol Nb, atomic number 41) is a rare, soft, gray metal. It was discovered in a variety of columbite (now called ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:nervoussystem.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Nervous system. Courtesy of 3DScience.com]] As commonly defined, the human body is ...
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  • Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, defined by the United Nations scheme of geographic regions as consisting ...
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  • Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón de Rivera, better known as Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 to July 13, 1954), was a Mexican painter of the ...
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  • The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the world's premier men's basketball league. It has 30 teams; 29 in the United States ...
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  • Category:Public number=74 | symbol=W | name=tungsten | left=tantalum | right=rhenium | above=Mo | below=Sg | color1=#ffc0c0 | color2=black ...
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  • Salt is a mineral, composed primarily of sodium chloride, which is commonly eaten by humans. There are different forms of salt: unrefined salt ...
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  • Acetic acid, also known as ethanoic acid, is an organic chemical compound best recognized for giving vinegar its sour taste and pungent smell ...
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  • Polynesia (from the Greek words meaning "many islands") is a large grouping of over one thousand islands scattered over the central ...
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  • The Republic of Uganda, or Uganda, (usually pronounced yoo-GAN-duh) is a country in East Africa, bordered to the east by Kenya, on the north ...
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  • In electrical engineering and industry, thermocouples are a widely used type of temperature sensor and can also be used as a means to convert ...
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  • Sulfuric acid (or sulphuric acid in British English) is a strong mineral acid with the chemical formula H2SO4. It is soluble in water at all ...
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  • Qinghai is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northwestern portion of the country. It is named after the enormous ...
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  • The thermoelectric effect is a phenomenon by which a temperature difference is directly converted to electric voltage and vice versa. On the ...
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  • Category:Public number=30 | symbol=Zn | name=zinc | left=copper | right=gallium | above=- | below=Cd | color1= | color2=black transition metals ...
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  • French Polynesia, or as it is known in Tahitian language, Porinetia Farani, is a French "overseas country" in the southern Pacific ...
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  • |- | Critical temperature || 1673 K (gray) 24.44 ? 34.76 24.64 553 | 596 | 646 | 706 | 781 | 874 | comment= color1=#cccc99 | color2=black ...
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  • Sichuan ( c=四川 |p=Sìchuān |w=Szŭ4-ch'uan1 ; Postal map spelling: Szechwan and Szechuan) is a province in western China. It borders ...
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  • ( s=甘肃 |t=甘肅 |p=Gānsù |w=Kan-su, Kansu, or Kan-suh ) is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northwest region ...
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